Physical Review Physics Education Research

Papers
(The H4-Index of Physical Review Physics Education Research is 21. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Recognizing dominant cultures around assessment and educational change in physics programs142
Do students think that objects have a true definite position?90
Motivation, demographics, and engagement during COVID-19 in an astrobiology massive open online course83
Leveraging scientific modeling to engage pre-med undergraduates in physics lab courses75
Other spaces for young women’s identity work in physics: Resources accessed through university-adjacent informal physics learning contexts in Sweden74
Open-inquiry opens doors to intriguing optics experiments at home: A case study62
Student attitudes toward quantum information science and technology in a high school outreach program53
Astronomy identity framework for undergraduate students and researchers53
Combining physics education and machine learning research to measure evidence of students’ mechanistic sensemaking52
Implementation of the photovoice methodology in a project-based upper-division physics course52
Extending curricular analytics to analyze undergraduate physics programs37
Metacognition and epistemic cognition in physics are related to physics identity through the mediation of physics self-efficacy35
Group dynamics in inquiry-based labs: Gender inequities and the efficacy of partner agreements29
Contributing factors to the improvement of conceptual understanding in a computer-based intervention in Newtonian dynamics29
Exploring gender differences in the Force Concept Inventory using a random effects meta-analysis of international studies28
Do female and male students’ physics motivational beliefs change in a two-semester introductory physics course sequence?26
Comparison of men and women’s motivation of choosing physics teaching or nonteaching trajectory25
Editorial: Call for Papers for Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research : Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research24
Improving student understanding of the number of distinct many-particle states for a system of identical particles with a fixed number of available single-particle states24
Development of a multiple-choice test to assess critical thinking in climate change23
Psychometric evaluation of the culture around systemic change survey: A tool for assessing facets of departmental culture in physics22
Distinguishing between students’ conceptual understanding and reasoning approaches: An application of dual-process theories21
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